Confirmed speaker: Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London

The third international What Happens Now conference will provide a forum in which to discuss, reflect on, and review creative literary and dramatic work in English, published since the year 2000. The principal aim of this conference series is to contribute to the canon formation process by which the significant and innovative writers and dramatists of the new millennium are discovered and discussed, and to begin to identify new patterns, clusters, trends and paradigms in contemporary prose, poetry and drama.

We welcome papers discussing the full range of literary and dramatic expression produced from the mainstream to the margins, including:

∙ Genre and Form
Mainstream and experimental, popular and avant-garde
New genres/forms
Mixing genres/forms, fact/fiction
Re-emergence of older forms
New technologies and form
Adaptation

∙ Contexts of Literature
Individuals, communities, and institutions in a marketized world
New conceptions of time
Spatial struggles: occupations and riots
Digital culture
Self-publishing and the economics of production

∙ Politics and identity
Political impotence, political agency
21C racisms
Return of the violent right
Religious returns/postsecularism
Class abjects
(Dis)ability and Critical Disability Theory
Global injustice and postmillennial subalternity
Bioscience, Butlerism and the politics of reproduction
Misogyny and the pornography of consumer culture

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